Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future

Notes on Contributors

269 Notes on Contributors VINCENT BROOK teaches at UCLA, USC, Cal-State LA, and Pierce College. He has written or edited five books, most recently Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles (2013) and Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (co-editor, 2013). WILL BROOKER is currently director of research in film and television at Kingston University, London. He is the author/editor of nine books on popular narratives and their audiences, including Batman Unmasked, Using the Force, Alice’s Adventures, The Blade Runner Experience, the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars, and Hunting the Dark Knight (2012). He is the first British editor of Cinema Journal, the publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. JOHN T. CALDWELL is a professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA and the authorofProductionCulture:IndustrialReflexivityandCriticalPracticeinFilm andTelevision(2008)andTelevisuality:Style,Crisis,andAuthorityinAmerican Television (1995). He has edited or co-edited several books, including: Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Film/Television Work Worlds (2009, with Vicki MayerandMirandaBanks),NewMedia:TheoriesandPracticesofDigitextuality (2003, with Anna Everett), Theories of the New Media: A Historical Perspective (2000),andElectronicMediaandTechnoculture(2000).Hiscurrentbookproject is entitled Para-Industry. Caldwell is also a producer/director whose awardwinningfilmsincludeFreakStreettoGoa :ImmigrantsontheRajpath(1989)and Rancho California (por favor) (2002). His current documentary film/media archaeology project is entitled Highway 58: Boron to Buttonwillow (2013). M. J. CLARKE received his doctorate in film and television from UCLA. He is the author of Transmedia Television: New Trends in Network Serial Production 270 • Notes on Contributors (2012). His articles on television have appeared in Television & New Media and Communication, Culture & Critique. JONATHAN GRAY is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2009), Television Entertainment (2008), Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality (2006), and (with Amanda D. Lotz) Television Studies (2012). He has also co-edited numerous books, including A Companion to Media Authorship (2013) and Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era (2009). HENRY JENKINS is a Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism at USC. He co-authored Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (2013), Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick for the Literature Classroom (2013), and Science Fiction Audiences: Dr. Who, Star Trek and Their Followers (1995). He is the author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2008), The Wow Climax (2006), Fans, Gamers, and Bloggers (2006), Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (1992), and What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (1992). He co-edited Classical Hollywood Comedy (1994), Democracy and New Media (2003), Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (2003), Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (2003), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games (1998), and edited The Children’s Culture Reader (1998). DEREK JOHNSON is an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries (2013) and the coeditor of A Companion to Media Authorship (2013). ROBERT V. KOZINETS has authored or co-authored more than 100 research publications , including a textbook and three books: Consumer Tribes (2007), Netnography (2010), and Qualitative Consumer and Marketing Research (2013). An anthropologist by training, he is a professor of marketing at York University and also chair of the Marketing Department. DENISE MANN is an associate professor and chair, Producers Program, UCLA. She is the author of Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover (2008). She co-edited Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer (1992) and served as associate editor of Camera Obscura for six years. She has Notes on Contributors • 271 published essays in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Camera Obscura , and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. KATYNKA Z. MARTÍNEZ is an associate professor of Latina/o studies at San Francisco State University. Her publications include “Pac-Man Meets the Minutemen : Video Games by Los Angeles Latino Youth,” in National Civic Review (2011); “The Garcia Family,” “Sharing Snapshots of Teen Friendship and Love,” and “Being More Than ‘Just a Banker,’” in Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media (2008); “Real Women and Their Curves: Letters to the Editor...